Breaches and Hacks Archive
Welcome to our latest monthly review of cyber attacks and data breaches. While we’re all eager to turn our attention to 2023 and declare “new year, new me”, we still have some unfinished business in the form of December’s cyber …
Welcome to our latest review of cyber attacks and data breaches. In February 2022, we found 83 publicly disclosed security incidents accounting for 5,127,241 breached records. As ever, you can find the full list of security incidents on our sister site. In …
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In November 2021, we discovered 223,615,390 breached records from 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents. As ever, you can find the full list of cyber attacks and data breaches on our sister site. Here, we take a closer look at some …
In October, we found 94 publicly disclosed security incidents, which accounted for 51,248,331 breached records. As ever, you can find the full list of cyber attacks and data breaches on our sister site. Here, we take a closer look at …
Cyber criminals have been luring people into handing over their personal details under the pretence of bidding for U.S. Department of Transportation contracts. The phishing campaign, which targeted organisations in the engineering, energy and architecture sectors, told recipients that the …
In August, we found 84 publicly disclosed cyber attacks and data breaches, which accounted for almost 61 million breached records. You can find the full list of incidents on our sister site, but, as always, we delve into some of the …
According to our figures, there were at least 86 publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks in July 2021. You can find the full list of incidents on our sister site, but as always, we delve into some of the …
According to our figures, there were at least 128 publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021. And as was the case last month, ransomware was the main method of attack, with 52 reported cases. You can find …
In March, we found 151 publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks, making it by far the leakiest month we’ve recorded. By comparison, there were just 82 incidents in January and 118 in February. You can find the full list …
